Spatial semiotics and spatial mental models : figure-ground asymmetries in language / Martin Thiering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thiering, Martin, author.

Series:

Applications of cognitive linguistics ; Volume 27.

Applications of Cognitive Linguistics, 1861-4078 ; Volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics--Case studies.

Semiotics.

Cognitive grammar--Case studies.

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] : Mouton de Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents novel data from endangered languages and cultures that are ever so often still not focused on. It combines different disciplines to capture the intricacies of spatial orientation and navigation. Also, the interplay between culture through language and practices presents new insights in the importance of combining cognitive semantics with cognitive anthropology.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Index of Tables

Table of Content

Chapter 1: Setting the Stage

Chapter 2: Cognitive Representation of Knowledge: Spatial Mental Models

Chapter 3: Figure-ground reversals in language

Chapter 4: Degrees of specificity in spatial semantics

Chapter 5: Language loss in spatial semantics: Dene

Chapter 6: Spatial concepts, language and practice in Eipo and Dene

Chapter 7: Closing the stage

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 11, 2015).

ISBN:

9783110356878

3110356872

9783110394436

311039443X

OCLC:

951149503